WEBVTT ILY OF THE VICTIMS,THEY SAY THEY HOPE IT'S FINALLYOVER.ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY SPOKEOUTSIDE FEDERAL COURT IN BOSTONAFTER 57-YEAR-OLD GARY LEESAMPSON WAS SENTENCED TO DEATHFOR THE SECOND TIME.AFTER BEING CONVICTED FORKILLING THREE MEN BACK IN 2001.SAMPSON WAS GRANTED A RETRIALBECAUSE IT WAS FOUND THAT ONE OFTHE JURORS IN THE FIRST TRIALWAS DISHONEST.>> NOT JUST ONE, BUT TWOMASSACHUSETTS JURIES HAVEDECIDED THAT THE JUST PUNISHMENTFOR TORTURING AND BRUTALLYMURDERING THREE MEN IS THESENTENCE OF DEATH.REPORTER: TWO OF THE VICTIMSWERE FROM MASSACHUSETTS, ANDROBERT WHITNEY WAS FROM NEWHAMPSHIRE.RIZZO'S CASE IS THE ONE SAMPSONGOT THE DEATH PENALTY FOR.AT FRIDAY'S SENTENCING SAMPSONSWORE AT THE PROSECUTOR AND THEJUDGE BEFORE THE VICTIMS'FAMILIES GAVE IMPACT STATEMENTS.>> WHEN YOU COMPARE THE DIGNITYAND THE HOW MANTI OF THE FAMILYMEMBERS IN THIS CASE WITHMR. SAMPSON'S OUTBURSTS IN THECOURTROOM, THIS THAT TELLS YOUEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW.REPORTER: PROSECUTORS SAYSAMPSON CARJACKED BOTH MCCLOSKEYAND RIZZO IN MASSACHUSETTS ANDTHEN MURDERED THEM THERE.WHITNEY WAS MURDERED AT IT ALAKESIDE HOME IN MEREDITH, NEWHAMPSHIRE.RIZZO'S MOTHER MARY GAVE ANIMPACT STATEMENT AT THESENTENCING AND BECAME EMOTIONALAS SHE ADDRESSED THE MAN WHOMURDERED HER SON 16 YEARS AGO.>> I DON'T THINK WE'LL HAVE ANYREAL SOLACE UNTIL IT'S CARRIEDOUT.I THINK UNTIL THAT HAPPENS, WEWILL STILL BE LIVING ON THE ENDTHINKING THAT SOMETHING ELSECOULD GO WRONG.>> I WOULD HOPE IT WOULD BE THELAST TIME I GET TO SEE HIM, BUTUNTIL HE'S PUT TO DEATH PROBABLYWON'T BE.REPORTER: SAMPSON DOES HAVE THERIGHT TO APPEAL THIS SENTENCE.WE'RE TOLD THE APPEALS PROCESS

Gary Lee Sampson, 57, was convicted of killing two men from Massachusetts and one man from New Hampshire in 2001. A jury sentenced him to death in January, and a federal judge formally issued the sentence Friday.

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Families of Sampson's victims were in the Boston courtroom for the sentencing. They said that they hope the decision means that it will soon finally be over.

"Gary Lee Sampson's story has come to an end," acting U.S. Attorney William Weinreb said.

Sampson was granted a retrial because it was found that one of the jurors in the first trial was dishonest.

"Not just one but two Massachusetts juries have decided that the just punishment for torturing and brutally murdering three men is a sentence of death," Weinreb said.

Two of the victims, Phillip McCloskey and Jonathan Rizzo, were from Massachusetts. Victim Robert Whitney was from New Hampshire. Sampson was sentenced to death for killing Rizzo.

During Friday's sentencing, Sampson swore at the prosecutor and the judge before the victims' families gave impact statements.

"When you compare the dignity and the humanity of the family members in this case with Mr. Sampson's outburst in the courtroom today, that tells you everything you need to know," Weinreb said.

Prosecutors said Sampson carjacked McCloskey and Rizzo in Massachusetts and killed them there. Whitney was killed at a lakeside home in Meredith, New Hampshire.

Rizzo's mother gave an impact statement at the sentencing and became emotional as she addressed the man who murdered her son 16 years ago. Another relative, Mike Rizzo, described the family's mood after the sentencing.

"I don't think we will have any real solace until it's carried out," he said. "Until that happens, we will still be living on the edge that something else could go wrong."

"I would hope it would be the last time that I see him, but until he is put to death, it probably won't be," McCloskey relative Scott McCloskey said. "We still have all of the appeals to go through."

Sampson has the right to appeal his sentence, and court officials said the appeal could take a long time.